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<p class="MsoNormal">John,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps the car is somehow grateful for your kindness.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I had to google “sproutpicker”, new one for me, thanks!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cliff</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:John.Macartney@Ukpips.org.uk">John Macartney</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, September 6, 2020 5:17 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[TR] The U.K. TR6 driver</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think it’s unlikely this owner is on this list - but just in case, this is for him.<br>
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Remember yesterday on the A46 near Bidford on Avon? I was the bloke in the black Volvo C70 convertible who took pity on you stranded at the roadside with a fuel metering unit whose timing was out of whack. Some things for you to remember for future reference:<br>
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1. I stopped to offer you help out of kindness and curiosity. No emergency mechanic will understand the Lucas injection system fitted on your TR6. I do, having worked on many cars with that equipment when new and I’ve owned three myself.<br>
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2. If you choose to drive a classic car, One jack without a handle, no wheelnut spanner at all and a sloppy adjustable spanner does NOT represent a toolkit! Wasn’t it handy that mine was available?<br>
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3. If you paid £30,000 for that car, the seller saw you coming. The engine needs a major rebuild from the racket it makes at idle, the electrics look positively dangerous and the fuel pump is over-fuelling the metering unit. What I did at the roadside in re-timing
your metering unit to squirt the correct pipe at least got you running on all six, albeit not smoothly but enough to get you home.<br>
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4. I hope you enjoyed the lunch you never stopped telling me you were likely to miss as I worked on your car and...<br>
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5. If anyone else ever stops to help you at the roadside when they had no need to themselves, remember it’s customary to say just two words before storming off in a cloud of smoke and crashing gears. Those words? Thank you is the customary in England and a
few other places too.<br>
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Sproutpicker!<br>
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Jonmac<br>
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Bessie Braddock: “Winston! You’re drunk”.<br>
Churchill: “and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober but you will still be ugly”.<br>
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